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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

Battlenet brought some really clever innovations back in the day!

If it was 2010 and you had both running, battlenet was clearly superior.

Battlenet's UI and presentation looked great. Automatic patches, lots of settings to where files should go, info about the game. They also had this sweet feature where you can play when it has the core files, and it continues to download in the background, which still doesn't exist in non-battlenet games.

Really though, 2010 was also when Blizzard started to fall apart too. Constant churning of WoW expansions, deciding to split StarCraft 2 into three games, and making Diablo 3 look "prettier" was all bad signs.